Dr. Azim Ahmed, Research Associate in British Muslim Studies at Cardiff University, discusses the late Shahab Ahmed's (no relation!) seminal work "What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic" leading us to identify the Anglophone as the New Persianate for the Cathay-to-California Complex.

Links: Abdul-Azim Ahmed, Mind the Gap — The Textual, The Social, and Anglophone Islam https://medium.com/@AbdulAzim/mind-the-gap-the-textual-the-social-and-anglophone-islamin-shahab-ahmeds-2015-book-what-is-1e42b79e10ac

Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, Islam and the Cultural Imperative https://www.theoasisinitiative.org/islam-the-cultural-imperative

Originally published Sep 1, 2022 on https://youtu.be/MBUTbuBGtFw